Pocket coin-holder



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P. SEILER. POCKET 00m HOLDER.

' No. 569,675. Patented 001;. 20, 1896.

IVE/752166668 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIPP SEILER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

POCKET COIN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,675, dated October20, 1896.

Application filed June 1, 1896. Serial Nor 593,691. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILIPP SEILER, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Coin-Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a box to be carried in the pocket, and isdesigned especially for the use of children as a coin-savingsreceptacle,although it may be used for otherpurposes, as willhereinafter appear.

The invention consists, essentially, in a self-closing box made of sheetmetal in two interlocking sections, which are opened by pressing againstthe rim of the holder and closed by the resiliency of the metal formingthesaid box-sections.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention, Figure 1 isa perspective view of the box as held in the hand and pressed togetherto open it; Fig. 2, an edge elevation of the box with the coin slotsclosed in its normal position; Fig. 3, a side elevation thereof Fig. l,an edge elevation of the box with its edges pressed together and thecoinslots open; Fig. 5, a similar view with the slots presented andclosed; Fig. (3, an enlarged sectional fragment of the top of the boxwith the slots open; Fig. 7, an edge elevation of the box with slotspresented and open; and Fig. 8, an enlarged sectional fragment throughthe side box, showing the interlocking notches.

The box is made of two dial-shaped sections 1 and 2, respectively,having flanges 3 and 4. Each of said flanges has a peripheral notchindentation or depression 5 6 upon the inside of said flanges, bulgingoutwardly to fit one within the other when the said sections 1 and 2 arepressed together, and each of said sections being furthermore provided,respectively, with slots 7 and 8 near their edges, which pass each otherwhen the sections are pressed together, the solid portion of one flangethus covering the slotted portion of the adjoining flange and closingthe box.

When the slots '7 and 8 of the box are to be opened to pass a cointhrough them, the peripheral edges of the box at the notch projectionsare pressed together between the thumb and the finger, which causes thedial-shaped sections to bulge outwardly at point opposite the slots andcoincidently at diametrically opposite points below, and thus bring thesaid slots directly opposite each other in position to admit of thepassage of the coin through them and into the box.

When a suflicient number of coins have been placed in the box tocompletely fill it, the weight of the coins within the box, besides thesolidity of the mass contained therein, will be sufficient to split orwedge the box open by the mass pressing from within when the box isstruck upon one of the side notch projections.

The resiliency of the metal and the retaining capacity of the sidenotches are predetermined and are adjusted to suit the volume and weightof the coin to be contained within the box.

The box may be perforated at its peripheral flanges as well as slottedto receive pellets, pills, or confections, and the sides of the box maybe variously marked for use as a calendar or as a combinationpocket-piece.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent A coin orpocket safe consisting of two sections, each having peripheral overlyingflanges, provided with slots and with notch indentations to interlockone with the other, to be held normally closed and to be opened bypressing upon opposite sides of the rim of the box,substantially asshown and described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses PHILIP SEILER. Witnesses:

WM. H. ROWE, FRED. O. SCHNELLE.

